VIDEO: Chinese Authorities 'Disinfect' Wuhan With Fleets of Trucks Spraying Chemicals in the Air

Nationalfile.com ^ | 02/10/2020 | Gabriel Keane

[bert]

——Chinese panicking.-——

The visual effect of the very large sprayers is great

As a bureaucrat, doing something visual is far better than doing nothing. To soothe fears of thousands of women distraught with fear over the well being of their children is a worthwhile endeavor even if the effort is not real.
alcohol, especially when mixed with water is cheap

Down south it was a regular summer occurrence to spray to get rid of mosquitoes.

[Zhang Fei]

[Whats interesting is that the bubonic plague ravaged the Roman Empire during the lifetime of Zhang Fei.]

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It’s interesting that you brought this up, because it appears that over a century before Zhang Fei became a part of Chinese history, plague-infected carcasses are said to have been used, in northeast Asia, against cities under siege:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)#Biological_weapon

This pre-dates, by almost 800 years, the first (fictional) mention I recall of plague in the Chinese context. A plague epidemic was a background element in one of (Dutch sinologist) Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee detective novels. Judge Dee’s character was a Tang dynasty magistrate who occasionally operated as an imperial censor/auditor to check up on non-local “local” officials helicoptered in to high provincial posts by the emperor.

[Loud Mime]

Brings back memories of riding behind the truck spraying for skeeters in Tampa in the early 50’s. Still hack, hack, here. :-)

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Same here, but mid 50’s, Albrook AFB Canal Zone

[FoundinTexas]

I remember reading that several large areas in Europe had little Plague. Come to find out those people did have a genetic advantage and were not as likely to get the Plague or die from the Plague. I think it helps to protect those same people from AIDS.

[Svartalfiar]

My suspicion is that the Chinese are less susceptible. For the same reasons that Africans are less susceptible to malaria and yellow fever (which is why they were in such high demand as slaves or indentured labor in the Americas - they survived where non-blacks died like flies). The sheer virulence and variety of bugs that emerge in China means that people who are genetically susceptible are rapidly culled from China’s gene pool via death or disability.

Actually, I believe it is the opposite. Not yet confirmed, but there's been several articles that this virus is more infectious for either Chinese or East Asians in general, with those populations have 5-6x the numbers of receptors in the lungs for it, as compared to most European descendants. No clue compared to Africans.

Which would help explain why China's been slowly exploding in infections, whereas most of the non-Chinese ones haven't spread too much except for the one cruise boat.

[Zhang Fei]

[Actually, I believe it is the opposite. Not yet confirmed, but there’s been several articles that this virus is more infectious for either Chinese or East Asians in general, with those populations have 5-6x the numbers of receptors in the lungs for it, as compared to most European descendants.]

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Do you recall the sources for these articles? URL’s are not necessary - website names will do. I’ve read a number of these articles, but nothing from a reputable source. And just from an empirical standpoint, it makes very little sense. The Chinese yen for exotic meats would seem to expose them to a great variety of coronaviruses of different degrees of infectiousness and virulence. For the most part, people who aren’t immune or resistant should no longer be part of the gene pool.

Pre-Columbian Indians were killed by smallpox in huge numbers because they had no prior exposure to the bug. Similarly non-Chinese should have very little exposure to coronaviruses because for most part, they don’t think of bats or pangolins as food. In theory, this should make them especially vulnerable.

[Ozark Tom]

Another possibility is a prior Coronavirus vaccine may have been used in inoculations, one which resulted in dire side effects with exposure to the new virus.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22536382

[Svartalfiar]

So it was a small study link in one of the articles about the British guy that beat the virus with whisky, lemon, and honey.

Small sample size, preliminary research, so it could be something, or nothing.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full